Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 1189 Drought
Zhang Yu took two quick steps forward and tried to take the hoe from Grandpa Xie: "Grandpa, let me do it."

Grandpa Xie turned sideways to avoid his outstretched hand.

"Don't take up your hands. This is all I have left. I can finish it in a blink of an eye."

After saying that, he looked at the weeds on the ground and sighed.

"It's been so dry this year that even grass can't grow in the fields."

Seeing that only Grandpa Xie was there, Zhang Yu asked casually, "Where are my uncle and his family?"

Speaking of this, Grandpa Xie became even more worried: "They went to the fields."

Speak of the devil and he will appear. Grandpa Xie and Zhang Yu just started talking about Uncle Xie and his friends, and the next moment they heard Uncle Xie and his friends shouting.

"Dad, how is the work in the garden going? Why don't we go back first? It will be time to go to work soon."

Grandpa Xie stopped what he was doing, straightened his back, looked at the weeds in front of him, let out a breath, and thought, forget it, I won’t weed them anymore.

"Let's go, Xiaoyu, let's go back first."

Zhang Yu wanted to reach out and support Grandpa Xie.

Seeing this, Grandpa Xie finally smiled. He waved his hand and said in full energy, "No, I'm in good health. I can walk by myself!"

After saying that, he walked in front with a smile.

Following behind a few people, Zhang Yu heard Grandpa Xie asking Uncle Xie how the situation was in the fields.
Uncle Xie lowered his head and his voice was full of helplessness.

Although they had a good life with no worries about food and drink and were surrounded by servants, they had been taking refuge here for many years.

If at the beginning he went to work in the fields in order to avoid attracting attention and create the illusion that he had no money.

Now I've gotten used to it, and after all these years I've become an expert in farming.

On the contrary, every time I recall my youth, there is always a subtle sense of confusion.

It had been so long, as if it was a previous life. Sometimes he even doubted whether he really lived such a carefree life, or was it all just his fantasy?
But now with his parents by his side and his wife and children around him, Xie Zhiyuan is very content with his current life.

I just occasionally think back to the past, the ease and comfort I had, and the life that I didn’t think was extravagant before but now seems quite luxurious.

But then he thought about how many friends stayed in that time forever, and he was still alive, and his whole family was still alive, and he felt that such a life was actually not attractive at all.

He had already enjoyed everything he should have enjoyed when he was young. Compared to those things, family was more important to him.

Although he lived far away in the Northeast, he was not completely ignorant of the news in Beijing.

Apart from anything else, at least his only blood relative left by his sister, his only eldest nephew, is still in Beijing.

Although he knew that his sister's husband's family was good to his eldest nephew, how could it compare to raising him personally? After learning that his sister and brother-in-law had passed away, he once wanted to take his eldest nephew back home.

I just think that my eldest nephew is better off with the other party. There, he has a clean identity and can develop freely, and he can also be protected from the storm under the protection of his family.

But if you follow me, you can only live in a small corner for safety.

Although in Beijing, the eldest nephew can also choose not to make progress and live the life he likes under the protection of his family.

But there is a difference between choosing by yourself and being forced to choose.

And looking at what my nephew has done, I know that he is a man with great ambitions. Even if such a person wants to live in a small corner, there will always be something pushing him forward. On the other hand, Uncle Xie still feels a little guilty.

After his sister and brother-in-law passed away, his parents could not bear the blow and fell ill one after another. His father was particularly seriously ill. Several doctors had already issued a critical illness notice. He and his second son really could not spare the time to go to Beijing to accompany their nephew.

During that time, the whole family was so busy that sometimes they didn't even have time to make a phone call.

The family was divided into two groups, with myself and the second oldest child taking care of my father, and my wife and sister-in-law taking care of my mother whose condition was less severe.

This is not the most stressful thing. The most stressful thing is that they have to find ways to hide the fact that the other one is sick from the old couple.

Although they failed to keep the secret in the end, they still racked their brains during that period.

The people in Beijing also knew about their situation, so they didn’t dare to inform them of many things.

After this incident, Xie Zhiyuan was also shocked when he learned that his nephew was pushed down and fell into a coma.

If Beijing hadn't said that the child was well, he would have wanted to go to Beijing to see it with his own eyes.

But no matter what, the eldest nephew was in a critical moment during that period, but they, the closest relatives, were unable to help or even provide him with a little company.

Xie Zhiyuan has always felt a little guilty about this.

Fortunately, my eldest nephew didn't have any grudges.

"What are you thinking about? Is the situation on the ground really bad?"

Seeing that his eldest son didn't say anything, Grandpa Xie became a little anxious.

Compared with his two sons, he, who had enjoyed a wealthy life for half his life, found it more difficult to accept the gap at first.

It’s just that he is the head of the family and the pillar of the family, and he must set a good example for his children.

He was not used to working in the fields at first, but over the years, he gradually integrated into the local community and learned to treat the land as his life.

Although they have more confidence than ordinary farmers, on the surface, whether it is food, clothing, housing, transportation, or other aspects, they are not much different from ordinary local farmers.

Of course, apart from the fact that I love cleanliness.

Xie Zhiyuan came back to his senses from his memories, and thought of the crops in the field, and sighed: "It's still the same. The weather is too dry. Now is the time for seedlings to grow. It has rained twice since the sowing, and even the ground is not wet. Our village is downstream of the river, and the people of Tugouzi Brigade built a dam on it to intercept the water. Now the river has dried up, and these crops rely on everyone to carry water from the village entrance to irrigate.

But that little water is not enough. I looked at the few acres of crops that I watered the day before yesterday. Today the ground is dry, and there is still some moisture underneath. "

Uncle Xie also sighed: "I don't think the crops will be good this year."

Finally, he lowered his voice and said, "We'd better make some preparations early this year and get the food in advance. I'll tell the captain and ask him to remind the villagers privately."

Grandpa Xie nodded: "I will go and talk to the Xie family."

In fact, even if they didn't remind them, the elderly people in the village had already noticed that this year was not right and had already begun to intentionally reduce the portion of each meal.

If people used to think the elderly in their family were stingy, but after those three years, after seeing many families fall into poverty, everyone began to understand them.

I have no objection to the elderly controlling their food intake.

He even secretly told his children to dig more wild vegetables recently.

(End of this chapter)